Action Against Hunger UK statement on aid budget cuts

Kate Munro, Head of Advocacy at Action Against Hunger UK, emphasises the need to reinstate aid funding to protect lives and reaffirm the UK’s commitments on the world stage
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Kate Munro, Head of Advocacy at Action Against Hunger UK, emphasises the need to reinstate aid funding to protect lives and reaffirm the UK’s commitments on the world stage

Action Against Hunger joins forces with the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC) to raise urgent funds to help people affected by the escalating conflicts in Gaza and Lebanon.

Several health workers and civilians have been killed in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza in recent days

One year into the conflict, Action Against Hunger is expanding its humanitarian assistance to reach the most vulnerable families in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.

Action Against Hunger has mobilised an emergency response and is urging the international community to unite to deliver immediate and sustained relief efforts.

The urgent warnings come as 5.4 million Haitians face 'crisis' level hunger, with 2 million experiencing severe food insecurity, according to the latest IPC analysis.

According to estimates, thousands were forced from their homes due to the air strikes on Monday, which marked the deadliest day in Lebanon since the country's 1990 civil war.

Communities in Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon are in desperate need of food, clean water, shelter, health services, and protection.
During the Love Food Give Food campaign, restaurants invite diners to voluntarily add £1 to their bill, which can provide a mother with a day’s worth of life-saving ready-to-use therapeutic food to treat a malnourished child.

New displacement orders issued by Israeli authorities have forced another mass movement of families and humanitarian workers from areas in Deir al-Balah - one of the only remaining areas in the occupied Gaza Strip with essential infrastructure and warehouses storing aid supplies.

Without immediate action, an entire generation of children is at risk of infection

Action Against Hunger, along with nine other NGOs, are calling for increased diplomatic engagement and longer-term sustainable funding to Afghanistan